New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-07
RICE AND THE RETALIATION BILL.
THE MAN WHO DEFEATED BELMoNT's PLAN
TEN YEARS IN CONGRESS CLOSED WITH SIGNAL
yICToRY-DoN NJ. DICKINsoN-MR BENEDICT


TEN YEARS IN CONGRESS CLOSED WITH SIGNAL
vICTORY-DON NJ DICKINsoN-MR BENEDICT
AS A REFoRMER.
hRou THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TnIBuNEs
WASHINGTON, March 6.-The success Of Representative
Rice Of Massachusetts. in carrying the Retaliation Dill
through the House in opposition to the scheme OF which
Chairman Belmont acted wet nurse was
especially gratifying to his many friends mere Mr.
Rice served ten consecutive years In congress anu 40
q member Of the Foreign Affairs Committee mas per
formed some excellent service. He is man OF npe
scholarship and sound common sense and when he I'M
dertook TO press Senate proposition forward IN the
House he was supported by the better elements
both in the committees and the floor The course OF
Representative Grain. OF Texas, was especially noucea
ble Mr. Grain. though Texan by birth was educa'ca
In the North, having been graduated AT 81 francS
xayiers College, New-York City, twenty years ago. lie
asserted himself in manly fashion by following the lead
nj MIR Rice and IL said that Mr. Belmont has declared
his purpose not TO speak Mr. Grain as they pass each
other In the future -
Mr. Rice returns from Congress with conspicuous
feather in cap and strong Endorsement OF MS "o'"
as Representative and the respect in which ne is hed
7, ,. that bis friends are moving In the direction OF
accommodating his nomination for Governor next faI IN
which event his personal popularity would BIO strongly
supplemented by the effects OF his GROWING work IN
Congress
Boss Dickinson OF Michigan, retains to some extent
hshod upon President though he not by any means as
freouent or as welcome visitor at the White House as
he once was There is talk that L. Bancroft OF
Port Huron. whom the Senate for good substantial
re c%sems Is to be- Patent Commissioner Mongomeys
successor such an appointment would seem TO ndiGs'e
card TO Presidential favor nowadays AT any rate 1t
that the Pscs Of q Both aus
sumpons probably correct The contests WIN ,le
% y G"' cocrs as IL were every time do
so have filed him with amount OF arrogance ana con-
ceit it Is said which may prompt him to do much more
daring things than to renominate once rejected 10
another and still more responsible POSITION ' nan a.
which the judgment of the Senate pronounced MIN UNIV
to hold.
By the way also hear that on NJ. Dickinsons name
Is being considered by President of the COM
1nissioncrs under the Interstate Railroad act
Congress came very adournng on Friday without
having tho committees OF the houses wait upon the
President to inform him that they ready to go home
Such an act the part OF Congress is purely
matter OF courtesy toward the Execu-
tive. Neither the Constitution nor any
law prescrbes it. The refusal therefore OF the President
TO come to the Capitol when me hrsa 10 adhere
the line of conduct on Friday until summOhea
festations of AN extremely unciv temper assump
ton OF superiority over his predecessors as well wien
Mr.. Ingalls, appointed Messrs salisbury and sherman
committee the part of the Senate to wait upon
the President, the Ohio Senator for declared that
he would not 90 TO the White House salisbury at first
expostulated. but Mr. sherman firm in his deter
mnation Finally the Delaware Senator retired TO
like Pugh. Ransom. Beck and Others boz, I inH
unanimously agreed That MT sherman udl t$hcH tho
proper view of the matter. and Messrs sherman ana
Salisbury concluded TO proceed at the proper time TO the
Presidents at the Capitol and in the event OF NOT
finding him there report 10 the senate assuming hat
his absence from the post whore every President since
Washington mad found the last day OF Congress
meant that Mr. Cleveland had no further communication
10 make to Congress.
Printer Benedict having been confirmed by the
Senate safe and therefore announces that he
will appear in part of Reformer" before long This
is understood TO foreshadow Wholesale discharge OF
employees the Government printing office and the
appointment in their stead Of Mr. Benedicts
friends. Though doubt still exists as TO Mr. Bene-
dict being practical printer as required by the
statutes there will be little hestancy on the part OF
his friends pronounce him true Democrat after lie
has once started upon his career as " ReformeE'
nice little lay behind the seating OF Congress
man Charles Page OF Rhode Island, which the First
Controller by his decision that Page entitled only
to his salary from January 25 1887 the day on
which he legally elected, seems uncon-
sciously to have nipped in the bud. am
told that promised that II his claim for salary for
the full term OF the XLIXth Congress allowed he
would give the entire sum to the Democratic state
Committee and himself pay all expenses next month
when the special election in the lid Rhode Island DIS
trct elect his takes place he Is the rst
Democrat to in the House from Rhode Island since